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■■I FIGHT Fatal Shooting Follows Argument Between Two Women Over Man’s Love PlAds self-defense Thousands Jam Funeral of Woman Known to Many As Good Samaritan — Alleged Slayer Held For Murder
England To Aid Ethiopia In Case of War
AN EDITORIAL ... John R. Kingham
Murder has b^en written in large capitals at the head of the final chapter of a gripping battle waged by a wife to wrest the love of her husband from the seductive charms of another married woman. Mrs. Susie Saunders, 43 years cld choir singer, fell dead in front of her husband’s club at 2425 Sheldon street, late Sunday night with two bullet wounds in her chest, after a terrific hand-to-hand fight with her alleged ancient rival, Mrs. Elnora Feldon, 34, 2514 Mar-
tindale avenue.
The younger woman, found by police in her home shortly after the fatal shooting, was arrested and charged with thw murder. According to the police, her clothing was so heavily smeared with blood that she was taken to the City b os ' pital to determine if she had been injured. Investigation showed she hod suffered no wounds, but num- iw
tches and .bruises onher "body l>ore 'convitffnhgTy evidence of the fight’s fury.
Detectives are investigating today the atory of Mrs. Feldon that (die had been threatened with a gun by Mrs. Suanders as the two women met on the street and in the struggle to disarm her the gun
was fired.
Man Hears Argument
Elijah Edmonds, 2421 Sheldon street, told the oficers he had seen the choir singer leave the club room of her husband, Vernon Sanders and started to re-en-ter her car when the other woman approached. He said he heard an argument in which the victim had accused the other woman of going with her husband. Within a few moments, he said the two women fighting furiously, and shortly
Death of John R. Kingham, chairman of the board of directors of Kingan & Co. is profoundly regretted throughout Indiana. A foremost Indianapolis business man and a church member of long standing and prominence, Mr. Kingham will long be remembered by hundreds of citizens that knew him best for his many substantially helpful contributions to the social and civic uplift of the people
of this community.
Of a disposition of rugged honesty, kindliness, liberality, charity and goodwill to all mankind, Mr. Kingham, as a member of the advisory board of the Salvation Army, was never ceasing in his untiring
efforts put forth to advance the people’s religious and welfare work. The high esteem in which he was held as a business executive is revealed in the circumstance that Mr. Kingham had served as a director of the Institute of Ameri can Meat Packers, and as a board member of not a few local industrial enterprises. He is on record as being a man of high civic pride, a fact which was consistently reflected in his performances as a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Kingham’s was truly a spirit of fairplay as manifested always
toward the many hundreds of workers associated with the industry of which he was an executive^ Mr. Kingham, who died in Ireland, the land of his birth, while visiting relatives and friends, had suffered intermittently from heart trouble. His condition, however, was never regarded as serious. In his passing Indianapolis has sustained the loss of a great citizen; deprived of an important fixture in the community’s religious, social, and economic structures. This newspaper joins with the many hundred Kingan & Company’s colored employes in extending to the bereaved family its
heartfelt sympathy.
[ONE MORE MOB VICTIM BITES DUST IN SOUTH
J. R. KINGHAN'S DEATH SHOCK TO MANY FRIENDS
Former Kingan & Executive Was City
Civic Leader
Principals In Fight For Man's Love *
after he heard the shots, but does
not know who fired them. Detectives Sergeants, Holt and
Jones found Mrs. Feldon at her
home shortly after.
Mr. Sanders, questioned at police headquarters, admitted his wife had accused him repeatedly of keeping company with the other woman and the two had frequent violent quarrels. Mrs. Sanders, her dose friends say, in addition to warning Mrs. Feldon, had C-xerted every means to retain the
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HERNDON TO BE PUBLIC MEETING SPEAKER HERE
Citizens To Fight In Chain Gang Sentence Monday Night “Help fiee Angelo Herndon from a living death on the bnrburou> Georgia chain gang", is a leading subject to be discussed at a mas; meeting to be held in the Walkei Casino Indiana avenue and West street, Monday night, Augusts, at 8 o’clock. Mr. Herndon in person will lx* the principal speaker at the meet ing, which is expected to draw a tremendously large attendance. Other purposes of the meeting art to urge citizens to file protest against the recent United States Supreme court decision upholding Georgia’s slave insurrection law. Another objective of Herdon sympathizers is to bring about Herndon’s release from his sentence of 18 to 20 years on the chain gSng by collecting two million signatures on petitions to be forwarded to Governor Talmadge of Georpau Citizens are also being urged by the Angelo Herndon Defense ComIttee and International Labor Detp “join in the fight for the of the Scottsboro boys and Mootjey, and for the civil •the ^forking class and •Wpte-” r - ‘
^ohn^ Richard Kinghan, 61 years old, 3225 North" Meridian Street, chairman of the board of directors of Kingan and Company who died Wednesday of last week in Ireland, his native land, was for many years a prominent figure in
local philanthropic affairs.
News of his death was received by the hundreds of colored employees at the big local plant in a spirit of manifested sympathy. Many of these interviewed by a representative ot The Indianapolis Recorder have expressed themselves to the effect that in I he death of Mr. Kingan, the entire community has sustained the loss of “a perfect gentleman, a substantial citizen and a church-
man of consistent loyalty.”
Mr. Kingbau, who had lived in Indianapolis since 1932 was prominently active in civic and busi-
ness affairs.
The high regard in which he was held in the Kingan official circles is disclosed in the spirit of l be following announcement of
Mr. Kinghan’s death:
“It is with deep regret that we asinounce the death of Mr. John Richard Kinghan, chairman of the board of directors of this company ai Cultra, Ireland. July 23. He lias been associated with Kingan i and Co. since his j’outh and ^ tame president in 1924 and chair-
11,an of the board in 1929.
“The company has lost a very valuable executive and all his associates feel deepy the personal toss of one of the kindest and tru-
est friends.”
EMPEROR PREPARES DEFENSE
Negro Citizen Taken From Sheriff—Body Riddled With Bullets
LOUISBURG, N. C., Aug.
A furious mob, reportedly composed of colored and white % men Monday lynched Sweat Ward, al;leged ex-slayer of a white farmer here, after taking Ward from J. T.
Moore, Franklin county sheriff.
» Ward i& alleged to have killed Nthe white man and decapetated the lalter’s head after the former had tried to calm Ward who had at-
tacked a woman of his ow r n and another white farmer. The mob strung Ward up to a
free and perferated his body with tullets after the victim was spir“^ed to a spot four miles of epson.
Peace officers ordered by Gov-
ernor Ehringhaus to proceed to l.ouisburg to try to prevent the lynching arrived on the atene only to find Ward’s bullet-riddled body
hanging from the limb of a tree.
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BOYS KILLED, SEVEN INJURED
IN COLLISION ENGLAND READY TO GO TO WAR
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MOB THREATENS TO BEAT STREET CAR OPERATOR Woman Passenger Says 8J&*
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A possible riot was believed have averted when a heavy/ tingent of police dispersed |
of nearly one thousand , mostly colored who blocked sage of a West Tenth
ley bus opposite Military 1
Tuesday afternoon ^ as a spread through the ue that a colored woman thrown from the ear by a.
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bell, 33, lOil West fift. the officers she had been * off the car by the ooerai O. White, 1033 1 South St when she refused to get ing his dalm^tliat ate;
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MRS. ELNORA FELTON MRS. SUSIE SANDERS
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Mrs. Sanders East Side choir singer, was fatally wounded in a fight with Mrs. Feldon Sunday night when the two women are said to have quarreled over the latter’s attention to the singer’s husband, tory in another Column.
DR. R. HARPER, WIDELY KNOWN CITIZEN, DIES Former Veterinarian Was Indianapolis Resident 50 Years
Dr. Winders Acting Head Ftanner House At a special meeting of the hoard f directors Monday, the Rev. C. H. Winders, white, the board’s resident and president of the burch Federation was chosen superintendent of Flanner House, to ucceed the Rev. Henry L. Herod
vho died last week.
Dr. Robert F. Harper, age sixty, for many years associated with be- j the professional life of the city as a veterinarian died at his home, 1236 Nortft West street, Sunday night following an illness of one
week.
Dr. Harper, who was born in Snow' Hill, N. C., June 15, 1875, came to Indianapolis with his par- , ents fifty years ago and had lived
here since.
In 1903 he was graduated from the Indiana Veterinary College, which profession Dr. Harper had practiced here since. Deceased, who was n member of Lincoln Union Lodge, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, a member of the Household of’ Ruth No. 34, and Grand Palriarcby No. 23 rose to many high offices in the many | departments of the Order of Odd
(’arefill consideration will be : Fellow’s, then applicants for the regular I Funeral services for Dr. Harper position so successfully and capnb- J were held Wednesday afternoon at ly administered by the late Rev. 2 o’clock at the Second Christian 'Jr. Herod, members of of the;church of which he was a member board announced. Denominational . of prominent standing, connection is not a prerequisite, it | For many years a civic leader in was said, though control of the 1 the community, Dr. Harper, who famous institution rests with the j also was at one time active in the Disciples of Christ church. I political life of Indianapolis, was
ANOTHER NEGRO YOUTH GOES TO WEST POINT
Emory Joseph Jordan, of Chicago, Appointed—Two Others Named WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 2.— another Negro youth, Emory Joseff Jordan of Chicago, has been appointed to West Point academy by Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell, (Democrat, Illinois) who named two others, Oliver Clark and Carl Carr as alternates. All are citizens of Chicago. Only colored cadet at West Point now is Benjamin Oliver Davis, also from same Illinois district, who is scheduled to be graduated in June of 1936. Davis is the son of the only Negro officer now’ on active service in the United States Army. Another Chicago boy, Felix K. Kirkpatrick, Jr., who was appointed by former Representative Oscar DePriest before the latter was succeeded by Congressman Mitchell will enter West Point w’ith this year's incoming class.
Two young lives were crushed put and seven other young people probably maimed for life in one of the most harrowing tragedies in the Haughville section ’s recent history, when a truck carrying thirty-three youthful hayriders was sideswiped by another truck on Tenth street near the B. & O. Railroad crossing west of Tibbs avenue, early Saturday night. Those killed were: John Jeter, 14, 1131 North Belmont avenue. Arthur Kelley, 22, 935 North Sheffield. Injured: Iva Phillips, 13, 1117 North Belmont avenue, head and internal in-
juries.
Albert Davis, 20, 2110 West. Tenth street, legs broken. Pocahontas Phillips, 15, 1117 North Sheffield, legs injured. Pheolman Marion, 21, 232 Agnes street, right hip broken. . Ray Bush, Ip, 900 North Belmont, both legs broken. Will#im Richardson, 16, 722 North Elder, right arm and chest
injured.
The injured are being treated at
the City hospital.
Takes Chance On Passing The victims of the accident were seated on the left side of the sideless truck, their feet dangling as they sang songs en route to Bridgeport on a hay ride. The driver of the truck, Theodore Goodloe, 27, 1103 North Sheffield avenue, only decreased his speed slightly, it is claimed, as another wide truck, driven by Earl Bramlet, white, 24, 423 South Alabama street, approached. The hay riders were Injured as the trucks sideswiped each other in attempting to pass. The width of the road is 18 feet. The width of each of the trucks is
said to be nine feet.
The screams of the injured
IF ITALY INVADES ETHIOPIA
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Geneva, Aug. 2.—The increasing nimble of another gigantic war w^as beard in many important eapitols loday as word from a reliable source spread from the League of Nations sessions here that England and very .likely France, w ill offer armed resistance if Italy persists in her determination to establish a protectorate over Ethiopia. England, it is reported, has let it be knowm in no uncertain terms that although She has most sincere desire to uphold the influence and piestige of the League of Nations, her first preoccupation is the re-
tention of her African possessions. It is believed that if matters come to a showdown, Great Britian will occupy western Ethiopia in a move to safeguard her interests in the Nile, Uganda, Kenya and elsewhere, in Africa. In the meantime, she will remain lull, public discussion of the Itali-sm-Ethiopian dispute by the League of Nations if Benito Mussolini refuses British aud French offers for negotiation. Italy, it is being reported here, is sure to reject. For the moment, it appears, another large scale war is almost inevitable.
formerly a city veterinarian. Survivors are the w’ife, Mrs. Su-
san A. Harper; a son, Robert F. , -- — Harper. Jr., and a niece, Mrs. Ber- brought quick assistance from passtha Nelson of New York City. ing motorists who rushed the injur-
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MISSIONARIES OF NATION TO GATHER HERE
Nearly one thousand delegates and visitors will be the guests of Indianapolis during the Eighteenth Quadrenrial session of the Woman’s home and Foreign Missionary society of the A. M. E. Zion church at Jones Tabernacle, August 3 to 8. Bishop J. W. Martin, Los Angeles, Cal., will pleach the quadrennial sermon at the morning service, Sunday. The Keynote address will be given during the afternoon program by Bishop C. C. Alleyne, New Rocbell, N. Y. The Rev’. John F. Mooreland, St. Louis w ill preach the evening sermon. Monday morning, Bishop B. G. Shaw’. Birmingham, Ala., will pieach the annual sermon and of(Continued on Page Six)
Believe Transient Is Escaped Convict
Ira Edmonds, alias Sam Anderson a transient, awoke from a drunken stupor Wednesday morning behind iron bars to a situation more serious than a charge Of intoxication and carrying concealed weapons—a long dangerous looking knife. While Edmonds was recovering consciousness, Detective Walter Bennett, expert in the Bertillion department, discovered in his-files, identification clues wlhich he believes will send Edmonds back to the North Carolina state prison to complete a term for a murder, he is alleged to have committed in Raleigh and for which he wras convicted. He escaped, it is alleged July last year. He has been living here for several months at the Transient Servive shelter house, 227 North West street. He was arrested on the intoxication charge by Patrolman Preston Heater.
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Nearly All Colored Colleges Should Be Closed, Says Carter Woodson
(By DR. CARTER G. WOODSON) (For the Associated Negro Nress) PARIS, France—Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in Chicago on the ninth of September, will not assume the aspect of rejoicing over a victory already won. It will be more of a self-congrat-ulatory exercise that the founder and those who have co-operated with him have had the courage to struggle so long against tremendous Odds. That this learned so-
ciety has achieved some things significant cannot be denied. The great task of the organization,
however, still lies before It. The unfinished task of the As-
sociation was well summarized the other day when a young white woman of Mississippi was asked about the status of the Negroes in her state. She replied: “The Negroes of Mississippi are in slavery, and they like it.” A terrible commen + on conditions in that quarter but she could have said the same thing about the Negroes in Maine or California or Indiana. The Negroes of the United States are in slavery,
and they like it. If you mention it, however, they easily take umbrage and excoriate you for telling
the truth.
Has No Thinking Class Why do the Negroes of this country like their slavery? Well, in the first place, they have never known anything else. The so-call-ed freedom mentioned in the emancipation proclamation and the 13th amendment merely showed a tsep in the right direction. Very little has been done since that time to emancipate the mind of the Negro by which real freedom may be attained. On the other hand, how-
ever, a systematic program has Iren worked out and promoted in enslaving the mind of the Negro. Most of the socalled enlightenment allowed the Negro has been through miseducation in the interest of the oppressor. As the race has never been permitted to learn to think, it has not learned to do so. Having no thinking class, the Negroes of this country have not mastered the fundamentals of life in producing and providing opportunities for artisans, mechanics, manufacturers and merchants who must lay the foundation for a culture marked by great achieve-
nients in politics, history, litera-
ture, philosophy, and art.
Colleges Lopsided
The greater things of life are practically closed to us, and we have settled. down to picking up what the others cast off. We have a large supply of teachers and preachers; but, with the exception of a few criminally selfish religious racketeers, we advance among the masses no thought or doctrine except what is handed over to us by our oppressors. The Negro leaders are not Negro thinkers. Their minds have, been caucasianized by their traducers that they may nev-
er depart from the groove - Into which they have been directed. Our public schools have been and are now doing well in giving the youth a chance to master thd fundamentals, but in the colleges and universities where much more freedom could be exercised the so-call-ed educated Negroes produced ingloriously miss the mark. .Their education, with the exception of taking some notice of 'the Negro as a problem, is based upon inculcating an appreciation of the Ifebrew, the Greek, the Latin, and the Teu
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